Commit c71551ad authored Jan 11, 2007 by Linus Torvalds

Don't put "linux_banner" in the .init section



It might save a few bytes after bootup, but it causes the string to be
linked in at the end of the final vmlinux image, which defeats the whole
point of doing all this, namely allowing some broken user-space binaries
to search for the kernel version string in the kernel binary.

So just remove the __init specifier.

Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent 0404f87f

init/version.c

+2 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ struct uts_namespace init_uts_ns = {
		};
		EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_uts_ns);

		/* FIXED STRING! Don't touch! */
		const char __init linux_banner[] =
		/* FIXED STRINGS! Don't touch! */
		const char linux_banner[] =
		"Linux version " UTS_RELEASE " (" LINUX_COMPILE_BY "@"
		LINUX_COMPILE_HOST ") (" LINUX_COMPILER ") " UTS_VERSION "\n";

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